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Flashbacks to CORBA.

Dollar Shave Club | Los Angeles, CA or Remote (US only) | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com Dollar Shave Club is looking for an experienced Go (Golang) engineer interested in Kuberne…

Interesting! We built and use a service called Furan: https://github.com/dollarshaveclub/furan That said, Furan isn't suitable for untrusted Dockerfiles (or multi-tenant environmen…

Option 2 is very similar to how signal handlers work in Go. When a signal is received, a value is written to a channel and the library user is responsible for reading values from t…

Dollar Shave Club | Infrastructure Engineer (Go/Golang SDE) | ONSITE, Full-time | Los Angeles, CA | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com Want to work on Kubernetes, Docker, GRPC and rel…

Tests absolutely cost time, inversely proportionate to the raw ability of the programmer. A 95th percentile engineer can write cowboy code with zero tests that largely works. Enfor…

That's why they're the dominant player. Because even when a horrible defect is exposed people still desire the product over the competition.

Imagine seriously believing that guaranteed lifetime employment, very generous pension and health benefits (unheard of in the private sector), a well-defined career ladder as well …

The very assertion that you must protect people from exposure to various ideas is deeply problematic and against everything the Enlightenment taught us.

Google the phrase "forced technology transfer". The basic strategy is to woo Western companies with extremely cheap labor and vague promises about access to the Chinese market, in …

Ah, ok. That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification.

Wait, so even the "bare metal" i3.metal sits under a hypervisor? It would seem inaccurate to call it "bare metal" in that case.

"I'm part of a large, multi-organizational effort to put as many people out of work as possible."

I like it when kdb is mentioned because then I can post this link: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/k.h#L96 It's one of my all-time favorites. A window into a certa…

Agreed. There is a strong drive in industry to commoditize "coding". For example, the wide proliferation of bootcamps. The world being what it is, if the perceived skill is equal c…

> they mostly need to be profitable through advertising whereas the conservative side can be run at a loss while their backers recoup their investments through deregulation and tax…

It's not just battery manufacturing, it's everything manufacturing. It's clear that Musk (therefore Tesla) is addicted to the rush of developing and releasing new products but are …

When you have hundreds of thousands of customers with paid reservations waiting for Model 3s, why on Earth would you spend resources launching another product line? It’s madness.

In NYC (Manhattan, specifically), the external costs associated with driving (bridge/tunnel fees, parking) are so expensive that it prices out a large fraction of the population. T…